The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of WatchGuard products and/or services in IT jobs advertised for the Manchester region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited WatchGuard over the 3 months to 19 June 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all Vendors for the Manchester region.

The figures below represent the IT job market in general and are NOT representative of salaries within WatchGuard Technologies, Inc.

Location
3 months to
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
WatchGuard
Rank - 175 -
Permanent jobs citing WatchGuard 0 1 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Manchester - 0.027% -
As % of the Vendors category - 0.058% -
Number of salaries quoted 0 1 0
Average salary - £21,000 -
UK excluding London average salary £30,000 £35,000 £30,000
% change year-on-year
-14.28% +16.66%
All Vendors
Manchester
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
1892 1725 2021
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Manchester 44.99% 45.90% 50.54%
Number of salaries quoted 1586 1463 1830
Average salary £37,500 £35,000 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+7.14% -6.66%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £22,500 £24,500
10% offered a salary of more than £56,500 £60,000 £57,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
WatchGuard
North West

WatchGuard
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing WatchGuard across the Manchester region as a proportion of the total demand within the Vendors category.

Manchester WatchGuard Jobs Demand Trend

WatchGuard
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing WatchGuard across the Manchester region.

Manchester WatchGuard Salary Trend

WatchGuard
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Manchester region citing WatchGuard also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled that cited WatchGuard.

1 6 (100.00%) Windows
1 6 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 6 (100.00%) Cisco
1 6 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 6 (100.00%) NetApp
1 6 (100.00%) Windows Server 2003
1 6 (100.00%) Firewall
1 6 (100.00%) Windows Server 2008
1 6 (100.00%) NAS
2 5 (83.33%) Veeam
2 5 (83.33%) vSphere
2 5 (83.33%) Windows 2000 Server
2 5 (83.33%) Network Security
2 5 (83.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (83.33%) Cisco ASA
2 5 (83.33%) SWIFT
2 5 (83.33%) Exchange Server 2010
2 5 (83.33%) Disaster Recovery
2 5 (83.33%) IPsec
2 5 (83.33%) Finance
2 5 (83.33%) Replication
2 5 (83.33%) VMware
2 5 (83.33%) Exchange Server 2000
2 5 (83.33%) Exchange Server 2003
2 5 (83.33%) WSUS
2 5 (83.33%) Internet
2 5 (83.33%) Tivoli
2 5 (83.33%) Tivoli Storage Manager
2 5 (83.33%) CheckPoint
2 5 (83.33%) Cisco Certification

WatchGuard
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Manchester region citing WatchGuard also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled that cited WatchGuard. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 5 (83.33%) Exchange Server 2010
1 5 (83.33%) Exchange Server 2000
1 5 (83.33%) Exchange Server 2003
1 5 (83.33%) MS Exchange
2 1 (16.67%) IIS
Applications
1 4 (66.67%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 6 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 6 (100.00%) Firewall
1 6 (100.00%) NAS
2 5 (83.33%) Network Security
2 5 (83.33%) Cisco ASA
2 5 (83.33%) IPsec
2 5 (83.33%) Internet
2 5 (83.33%) VPN
2 5 (83.33%) DNS
2 5 (83.33%) SSL
2 5 (83.33%) LAN
2 5 (83.33%) VoIP
2 5 (83.33%) WAN
2 5 (83.33%) DHCP
3 4 (66.67%) SSH
4 1 (16.67%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) SQL Server
General
1 5 (83.33%) Finance
2 1 (16.67%) Banking
Job Titles
1 1 (16.67%) Senior Support Analyst
1 1 (16.67%) Server Support Analyst
1 1 (16.67%) Senior Analyst
1 1 (16.67%) Server Analyst
1 1 (16.67%) Senior Server Analyst
1 1 (16.67%) Cisco Consultant
1 1 (16.67%) Analyst
1 1 (16.67%) IT Consultant
1 1 (16.67%) Consultant
1 1 (16.67%) Server Support
1 1 (16.67%) Support Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 5 (83.33%) SWIFT
1 5 (83.33%) Replication
2 1 (16.67%) Enterprise Storage
Operating Systems
1 6 (100.00%) Windows
1 6 (100.00%) Windows Server 2003
1 6 (100.00%) Windows Server 2008
2 5 (83.33%) Windows 2000 Server
2 5 (83.33%) AIX
2 5 (83.33%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) Disaster Recovery
1 5 (83.33%) ITIL
2 4 (66.67%) Information Security
2 4 (66.67%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (83.33%) Cisco Certification
1 5 (83.33%) CCNA
2 4 (66.67%) CCNP
System Software
1 6 (100.00%) Active Directory
2 5 (83.33%) vSphere
2 5 (83.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (66.67%) Microsoft Virtual Server
3 4 (66.67%) VMware Workstation
4 1 (16.67%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 5 (83.33%) WSUS
1 5 (83.33%) Tivoli
1 5 (83.33%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 6 (100.00%) Cisco
1 6 (100.00%) NetApp
2 5 (83.33%) Veeam
2 5 (83.33%) VMware
2 5 (83.33%) CheckPoint
2 5 (83.33%) Juniper
2 5 (83.33%) IBM
2 5 (83.33%) Microsoft
3 1 (16.67%) Citrix
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